Thanks everyone for the quick answers!
The external wiki syntax worked as you gave an example of James. Thanks! I understand your points about letting the user decide if he wants the link in a new window or not, and if that was always the case on all links on every site in the world that it always opened in the same page then all users soon would remember to open in a new window (or new tab nowadays from IE 7). Most users are pretty lazy though and is used to that the website you're on is making this decision for you. I think in my case (in an installation instruction) to let the user just click the link and get another window where all the appropriate files are and just continue to read the installation instruction in the Wiki is what I would like myself to happen when I click the link. But I'm probably just as lazy as the rest of the userbase. ;) Thanks again! Regards Anders ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Berry Sent: den 20 februari 2008 18:34 To: 'FlexWiki Users Mailing List' Subject: Re: [Flexwiki-users] Make a link that opens in a new window You can make this happen using the external wiki syntax. My users do this, and I hate them for it. Here's an example: @TechServicesInstallationsDiary=http://www.ts.adastra.co.uk/office/diary /atsdiary.htm Then you do your link like this [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best wishes James From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Lakin Sent: 20 February 2008 17:26 To: FlexWiki Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Flexwiki-users] Make a link that opens in a new window Making a link open in a new window requires using the 'target="_blank"' attribute on the <a /> element, which is going to involve delving into the horrible formatting/parsing code, which is not a task I relish . In all honesty, the whole point of having the context menu options to open in new window, new tab (or whatever the browser supports) is the whole point. If the user wants a new window, they can have one. If they don't, they can choose to put it wherever their browser of choice allows. I would prefer not to further muddy the complicated wiki formatting rules even further by enabling some additional syntax that enables specifying target="_blank". That said, yes it can be done if someone is brave enough to venture into the formatting/parsing code and do a good job making sure that they write sufficient additional test cases and making sure that all the previous test cases still pass . Kind Regards, Derek. From: John Davidson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:14 PM To: FlexWiki Users Mailing List <mailto:flexwiki-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Flexwiki-users] Make a link that opens in a new window Hi Anders, I was just on that page and noticed the question. There is no way in the standard wiki software to open a link in a new window, from the link itself. Users become accustomed to right-clicking a link and selecting the action they desire or the link opens in the window they are in. This is normal browser behavior - I am always annoyed by links that open a separate window when I want it to open in the current one. Anyone else want to weigh in on desirable behavior in this case? It would be possible to change if there is a valid requirement. John Davidson On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Anders Jarl - anja < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Just a quick question. How do you write to open a link in a new window? I searched flexwiki.com but couldn't find it in the user guide. I saw a question about it there but there were no answers. I want to have a link to a directory in the intranet opening up in a new window instead of the current one. So like "Intranetlink":file:////myserver/mydirectory Thanks in advance! Regards Anders ________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Flexwiki-users mailing list Flexwiki-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexwiki-users This email has been scanned by the DefenderSoft Email Threat Protection. For more information please visit www.emailthreatcenter.com This email has been scanned by the DefenderSoft Email Threat Protection. For more information please visit www.emailthreatcenter.com
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